Pulley-support



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A. LAWRENCE. PULLEY SUPPORT.

No. 402,251. Patented Apr. 30; 1889.

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UNITED STATES ADELBERT G. LAINRENOE,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF MOTLEY, MINNESOTA.

- PU LLEY-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,251, dated April 30, 1889.

Application filed June 21, 1888.

Serial No. 277,858. (No model.)

pable of being adjusted to any angle, sup-- porting at its center an arm, wide and thin where it passes between the rims of the pulleys and terminating in a box between said pulleys, which supports the ends of the shafts, on which are journaledthe working and idle pulleys respectively.

It further consists in the peculiar combination and novel construction of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a'front elevation of my improvement wit-ha portion of the pulleys broken away to more clearlyshow the arm terminating in a box which supports the ends of the two shafts. Fig. 2is a detail view of the arm; and Fig. 3 is a view of one-half of the yoke, showing the mode of clamping on the boxes.

In the drawings, 0 D indicate the working and idle pulleys respectively, and E F their respective shafts, their ends terminating in and supported by the box end of the arm B, arranged between the pulleys, as shown.

By this construction it will be seen that this allows the idle-pulley and its shaft to remain stationary while the other is in motion, thereby doing away with the continual wear and jumping of the idle-pulley in machinery run at a high rate of speed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- .ent, is

' 1. In combination with the pulleys O D, the shafts E F, yoke A A, arm 13, and the boxes P P, reduced at f f, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the fast and loose pulleys and the shafts, the yoke A A, and an arm passing between the pulleys and provided with a box at one end for inclosing the meeting ends of the shafts, substantially as set forth.-

ADELBERT G. LAWRENCE.

\Nitnessesa I GEORGE WILLETT, WM. WILLETT. 

